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In this issue of 3 Minute Rounds, I discuss ways to effectively network online — and how online networking can support face-to-face business networking meetings. Your goals should be to join groups that are consistent with your marketplace.

I’ve spent a lot of time sharing LinkedIn related stories during my talks and making mention that LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms are NOT business networking. But they are! That is, if you…

Or someone else’s desk! You don’t have to go to a chamber mixer, cocktail party, association meeting, business card exchange, or conference to network – although it ain’t a bad thing! Going to events is one of the quickest ways to meet new people and reconnect with those you want to get to know better. […]

A myth is a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature. I’m not really sure what any of that means. […]

Sales people are funny. Real funny. Especially those in the financial services industry. (Financial advisors are particularly hysterical.) Why? Because even after taking my program and being primed on the rules of networking, many forget (or somehow haven’t yet realized) that networking and selling are two completely different things. Then again, maybe it’s me. Here […]

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